Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. The two texts are side-by-side to better understand them.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Dissolving Sugar Class Science Fair Project
Second graders work together as a class to generate a science fair project.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?
In this segment from History Detectives, Anne Zorela, a map collector, believes she's found a map that outlines the routes of the Underground Railroad.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of cause-effect relationships and drawing conclusions.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]
Graphic organizers are provided to help analyze the importance of people in history and to place events in chronological order. Guiding questions are provided to help guide students
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of Word From Context [Pdf]
Students will find a reference poster that will help students inference. Students will find step-by-step directions to help them infer meanings of new words.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]
Students can use these guiding questions as they complete two graphic organizers about a historical event. Students will then ask guiding questions about the historical event to draw conclusions about the historical event.
CPALMS
Mountain Bicycles, Inc.
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...
Read Works
Read Works: A Gym Jam
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational debating the requirement of gym class for students. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: In the Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage offers students the opportunity to conclude what type of animal is prowling in the night. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce...
Read Works
Read Works: Bringing Books to Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how children's books become movies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Why Learn Chinese
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about why some third-graders are learning to speak Mandarin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Not So Loony Toons
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how political cartoonists use symbolism, exaggeration, humor, and caricature to comment on current events. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing...
Read Works
Read Works: Great Wall Great Jump
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about daredevil skateboarder Danny Way and his attempt to jump the Great Wall of China. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Great Lakes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about environmental issues causing problems for the Great Lakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Paradise Lost
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and some of the animals living there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Rain Forest Rescue
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the Amazon rain forest and how Brazil is trying to protect it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Saving the Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read this passage on helping zoos in war torn Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and then they can answer five questions designed to improve thier skills on drawing conclusiong.
Read Works
Read Works: Birth of a Mighty River
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the Amazon River and its origins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: Look at Leaves
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the leaves on trees change from season to season. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Read Works
Read Works: African Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about lions, elephants, giraffes, and warthogs. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...